gwax's rumblings

I recently came across the trailer for Al Gore’s new movie about global warm­ing, An Inconvenient Truth, so I fig­ured that I might as well watch it and see what’s up. The trailer on it’s own has com­pletely changed my views on global warm­ing but prob­a­bly not for the bet­ter. There was one par­tic­u­lar scene where they were show­ing what would hap­pen to var­i­ous coast­lines if the South Pole melted caus­ing sea level to rise twenty feet and I had the instant thought that when (“if” if you want to be an opti­mist) global warm­ing really kicks in, I’ll have to get a big­ger boat. Seriously, if there’s apoc­a­lyp­tic flood­ing, I’ll just pull a Kevin Costner in Waterworld, except with­out the gills, nau­ti­cal inac­cuara­cies or that whole pariah thing.

Somehow, I think the point was to get me to be scared and start fight­ing against global warm­ing not get me to think about boats. Oops.

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